Tanasi

Tanasi (also spelled Tanase, Tenasi, Tenassee, Tunissee, and other such variations) (Cherokee: ᏔᎾᏏ) is a historic Overhill Cherokee village site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The village is best known as the source of the name for the state of Tennessee. Although now submerged by the Tellico Lake impoundment of the Little Tennessee River, Tanasi served as the de facto capital of the Cherokee from as early as 1721 until 1730, when the capital shifted to Great Tellico.